I'm guessing that is one of the same issues I just reported with IE8, its a font issue. The font stack we use may not be the best, or the fact that we drive some heights with em, or a combination of the two.
I'm almost thinking we should ditch the font stack for the nix stuff and use something like
@font-face {
font-family: "Open Sans";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: local('Open Sans'), local('OpenSans'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v7/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3T8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff) format('woff');
}
Then we update the body stuff as
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
font: 87.5%/150% "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", "Liberation Sans", "Nimbus Sans L", "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif;
}
or do everyone and just leave an ie8 fallback
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
font: 87.5%/150% "Open Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif;
}
Have not played around with @ font-face much, so may need to add bold/italic in that as well. Anyway point is at least we would know what we are dealing with. One of the problems with nix is the fonts available on the different distros really vary, we could add in some other common nix ones as well, that may help. Out of curiosity what font face is your browser using for this?